Coherent breaks ground on expanded 6-inch indium phosphide building in Sherman, Texas

Coherent broke ground on an expanded building at its Sherman, Texas campus, home to what the company describes as the world's first 6-inch indium phosphide fab. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Coherent CEO Jim Anderson attended, and Huang said Coherent has roughly quadrupled its InP output within a year. The new building is designed to scale InP wafer output for the optical links that connect AI chips, servers and data centers.

• Groundbreaking on an expanded building at the Sherman, Texas site.
• Site runs what the company calls the world's first 6-inch InP fab.
• Huang said InP output has roughly quadrupled within one year.
• No production volume target given in the post.